Senior Security Engineer

Job Summary The Senior Security Engineer’s role is to aid the organizational security efforts of Bugcrowd, while proactively improving our security posture. As the last line of defense for one of the largest crowdsourced security platforms, you will be challenged regularly! Accordingly, we require a motivated team who are willing to push their own boundaries and step out of their comfort zones, while being supported by Bugcrowd and the director of Cybersecurity. The Senior Security Engineer will receive mentoring from the team, while providing mentoring to others, and you will be responsible for managing your individual engineering workload. This role also requires excellent communication skills as the cybersecurity department liaises with all other departments within the company.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Security Architecture and Application Security - Working with developers to uplift the current security controls and architecting solutions

• Tool Creation - Creating tools used internally for securing the company, majorly in Python and Golang

• Operations / Incident Response - Aiding with the process of Incident Response, and security operational activities when required

• Risk Management - Assessing the risk behind security issues, and tracking core metrics

• Pentesting - Performing security assessments of Bugcrowd assets (and vendors)

• Quality Improvement - Contributing to the continual improvement of the Cybersecurity team’s policies and standards of practice

Experience Required 

• 5+ experience in a similar role or its equivalent.

• Familiarity with application security testing techniques (can perform a security assessment and code review should they be given a product, identifying weaknesses, ability to document findings, exploit development experience is a bonus)

• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and common security vulnerabilities of modern web apps

• Knowledge of Incident Response and operating systems as this role requires responding to incidents within the specified timezone

• Knowledge of threat intelligence

• Ability to understand a vulnerability and work with developers to patch it

• Knowledge and proficiency with coding in at least two of: Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang

• Great communicator who is comfortable communicating across multiple teams

• Self motivated, autonomous and organized - must be able to operate from a calendar, be punctual, and being able to manage timelines of projects/tasks for self and others

• Cloud experience (AWS preferred)

• Understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Ability to proactively find solutions ie. figure things out for themselves (look at configurations, learn what they mean, document potential solutions to solve the problems)

• Has the ability to be self-sufficient 

• Has some prior red teaming knowledge

• Familiarity with git and pull requests is a must

• Familiarity with a ticketing system / issue tracking system is a must (e.g: Notion and Jira)

• Preferred Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, MIS or equivalent experience

Working Conditions

• The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Sitting and/or standing - Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time

• Carrying and /or lifting - Must be able to carry / move laptop as needed throughout the work day.

• Environment - remote, work-from-home 100% of the time.